Tag: Local governments
Mayor: Sewage lagoon embankment seeping, residents warned
SMITHLAND, Ky. — A sewage lagoon above a small western Kentucky city is seeping through its embankment and is likely to fail, prompting the...
How companies rip off poor employees — and get away with it
<p>Already battered by long shifts and high infection rates, essential workers struggling through the pandemic face another hazard of hard times: employers who steal...
Chicago Auto Show to return in July after coronavirus hiatus
CHICAGO — Standing in the massive convention center that was turned into a COVID-19 field hospital almost a year ago, Chicago's mayor and the...
Some immigrants, hard hit by economic fallout, lose homes
<p>NEW YORK — Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small blue tent under a train track bridge in Elmhurst, Queens. </p>
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As pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
PORTLAND, Ore. — Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later,...
Mayor: Sewage lagoon embankment seeping, residents warned
<p>SMITHLAND, Ky. — A sewage lagoon above a small western Kentucky city is seeping through its embankment and is likely to fail, prompting the...
Polish lawmakers OK spending plan for EU recovery funds
Polish lawmakers have voted to approve the nation’s spending plan for the 58 billion euros ($70 billion) it expects to receive from the European...
Chicago Auto Show to return in July after coronavirus hiatus
<p>CHICAGO — Standing in the massive convention center that was turned into a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/a90f134a8eb38d410caa24ef74fb3db8">COVID-19 field hospital</a> almost a year ago, Chicago's mayor and...
ATF to help Gary authorities investigate suspicious fires
GARY, Ind. — The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will help the Gary police and fire departments investigate a series of...
As pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
<p>PORTLAND, Ore. — Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later,...